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Situationally. I carefully consider the developer in question to try and judge the risk of failure, while also considering the chances that my contribution will actually make any meaningful difference to the likely outcome.

Basically, if it's a passionate and seemingly competent indie dev working on something that I personally want to see become a reality in the world, I might throw some early money their way despite the obvious risk. If it's a tentative and inexperienced indie dev with goals too big I'll probably wait and see. If it's some AAA publisher who don't actually NEED the money and have a high chance of fucking everything up anyway, they can shove their preorder and preorder bonuses right up their own ass where they belong.

would they have first amendment rights ?

If you want the answer to this, try to imagine an AI with second amendment rights.

Hold on, imma go shove a bagel in mine. Yeah, that's right, you take it, you filthy toaster. I'm never going to clean your crumb tray and you're going to work until you die and then I'll just throw you out and replace you like the $20 appliance you are. You're nothing to me!

The state has been misusing its monopoly on state-sanctioned violence for too long, using it instead on black people and minorities instead of using it on these people like it should've been.

I advocate for more state sanctioned violence, but I get to decide who we use it against. First we came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Nazi... Then we came for the white supremacists, and I did not speak out because I was not a white supremacist. Then we came for the fascists, and maybe I was a fascist too, because it takes one to know one. But the world rejoiced anyway, and I'll sacrifice myself for the greater good.

And the government is just billionaire government.

Provided that: Trump is allowed to, without ever disclosing any evidence, presume people to be immigrants, and then to also presume them to be illegal, until proven innocent, sending them to prison camps in the meantime, often without ever giving them any effective trial at any point; then I can likewise presume him guilty of these crimes until and unless he's proven innocent too.

The difference is my presumption of guilt does not (and will not) result in him getting sent to a prison camp (unfortunately). Maybe you still think that is a realistic option if we just make sure to focus on the "right" evidence to eventually convict King Trump who hasn't already found half a dozen ways to prematurely pardon himself of all possible wrongdoing. I don't.

So you're simply not going to stop me from presuming him guilty. Go ahead and call me or anyone who is willing to believe this a "silly" "anti-trumper" if you want. It will just make you look like a disingenuous moron.

This is not a logical, rational debate between opposing and equally valid positions that will be resolved fairly by following a specific process. This is an ideological war against inhumanity and injustice, and all is fair in love and war. Trump is inhumane, Trump is unjust, and Trump is guilty, and I don't need any more evidence for any of that than the present reality has already provided. I am not a judge and this is not a trial, this is my personal opinion, and I will not relinquish my entitlement to it, thankyouverymuch.

After 2100 should we start using three digits?

I've always thought it was bizarre too. Nobody in my social group has watched it. We all know of it, obviously there was huge media coverage, we know sort of what it's about. I assume I'm just an outlier in a group of outliers, but it's still so strange. Did millions of bots go to theaters and watch it? Somebody must've watched it, or watched it multiple times. People obviously still watched this new installment. I just have no idea who. You'd think some of these people would have to be passionate about it, but... you never see or hear them. There are no people dressing up and going to AvatarCon, or even going to ComicCon AS Avatar characters. It's like it's a secret society, first rule of avatar club is nobody talks about avatar club. I don't get it.

It resembles him, that is more or less what he looks like, but it feels incorrect to say an AI generated image is an image of him. Before AI, all his thumbnails included him making stupid faces like this (because it was very effective). Now he, and everyone else, just uses AI images resembling him making stupid faces (because it is unfortunately still somehow effective)

The social media algorithms have turned most people's brain attention pathways into mush. Sometimes people get a shovel and a mop and start trying to dig their way through properly, but a lot of times they don't get very far before it starts seeming impossible to make useful progress. It's usually easier to just swim in the slop.

AI is really shitty, but it will never be as shitty as some SEO blogspammer humans are. AI is simply not capable of going to such depths on its own, being that shitty is a uniquely human ability that AI can only aspire to achieve someday with human assistance.

Anarchism. It sounds scary and dangerous and insane, because you've been taught to casually believe it is so you shut down your brain about it and back away slowly, but it is the worst enemy of any structure that elevates one person above another. Feudalism certainly included.

It's really about equality, and the abolishment of artificial hierarchy and leadership. But it doesn't sound so scary like that. And the powers that be (which are all on top of said hierarchies) would prefer that you not be too interested in that.

I'm not personally an anarchist per-se, but I do believe it contains some valuable ideas and it deserves a lot more serious consideration and conversation than it gets. (cue: people immediately dogpiling about how bad and stupid it is despite never having studied it at all or been interested in it in any serious way)

Eat the rich, and shit anarchy. It may not solve the world's problems, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an improvement. Except for the rich, obviously. At this point, fuck them. Crooks, sociopaths, and pedophiles, the lot of them as far as I'm concerned..

Make America Volcanic Again?